Ricky Gervais Had A Conversation With God On Twitter, And It Went Like This

It all began on Father's Day. In the red corner was Ricky Gervais - actor, comedian and atheist. In the blue corner was God. Or at least His representative on Twitter, @TheTweetOfGod.

Gervais kicked things off with a question for the big guy:

.@TheTweetOfGod What did you, as your son, get you, your own dad, for father's day?

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

Four minutes later, God tweeted:

As My own son, for Father's Day I bought Myself a necktie. And as My own father, I thanked Myself and silently felt disappointed yet again.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 15, 2014

And then (in a tweet since deleted):




To which Gervais replied:

.@TheTweetOfGod They were to Zeus actually but you just kept listening in.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

Gervais's thoughts then turned to the World Cup. Specifically, England's defeat to Italy on Saturday night:

.@TheTweetOfGod what were you thinking with that result though? You're English for fuck's sake. Have a bit of patriotism.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

Which drew this response from His Almighty (which has also since been deleted. Surely He's not embarrassed about the exchange?!):



And then Gervais moved on to music. Specifically, the music of Kiss:

@TheTweetOfGod Oh, my mistake. You did give Rock and Roll to us though, right? And it is you who's been giving and taking away stuff yeah?

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

Over to you, God:



Gervais posed one more question:

@TheTweetOfGod Where did you get the idea for light from? It's brilliant. So fast and bright. Light I mean, not you. Although you are too.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

But He fell silent.

Still, Gervais was delighted with the exchange:

That's the best conversation I've ever had with @TheTweetOfGod. Twitter is great. With praying I feel I may as well be talking to myself.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

And in one final response to this tweet....

My account isn't fake. It's absolutely real. The only reason it's not verified is being verified has never been My style.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 15, 2014

...even appeared converted:

@TheTweetOfGod I'm convinced. Enjoy your day off :)

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) June 15, 2014

Well, possibly.

(Via Mobilemag.com)